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On the left is
a photo of the championship football team that he played with at Tunstall England in
1906. Joseph is second from the left in the third row.
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is the Cabin List for the RMS Parisian, the ship that Joseph Dutton traveled on when he
left his home country to settle in Canada, March 21st, 1907. On the right is a log
of the miles traveled per day. (click to enlarge)
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| Joseph
Dutton (on the left) at his job as a carpentry foreman prior to the outbreak of WW1 (click to enlarge)
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Above is a
postcard sent home November 18, 1914. It shows Kingston's Old Fort Henry. Note the spelling on the front of the card.
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are the first 2 pages of a diary that was started, which covers the time he enlisted up to
November 24, 1915 (click to enlarge)
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 Above is a postcard sent home from Kingston which shows the Battalion's Headquarters building, the Kingston Armouries |
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Above is a postcard sent home on the day
the battalion sailed from Montreal aboard the RMS Metagama,
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are 2 photos taken in the practice trenches dug on Tollsford Hill, near the West Sandling
Camp. On the right, L/Col WSP Hughes, the Commanding Officer, is seen relaxing. (click to enlarge)
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Above is a Christmas Card sent home in 1915 to his daughter,
Ethel, whom he had never seen. She was born the first week in May, 1915, just prior
to the Battalion leaving for England.
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he is pictured in his 21st Battalion uniform, in France in 1916. (click to enlarge)
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Here
he is pictured (on the left) with 2 of his friends in 1916 (click to enlarge)
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Above is a
photo of the cooks at "G" Wing, at the Canadian Concentration Camp in 1919.
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This is a page that was taken from the notepad of a friend, Cpl CE Fowler (also of the 21st Battalion), which shows the amount of rations allowed per man. The time period is not specified, but I suspect it is per day, and scaled down from the allowable for 100 men.
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Joseph Dutton, on his retirement, became the Lockmaster at Healey Falls, near Campbellford. As was common at the time, the Lockmaster lived at the lock. While living there, his son Bobby, drowned while playing. Ernest Sutton (a 21st Bttn member) was a pallbearer at the funeral. |
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| Astride his
son's motorcycle in his old uniform at the outbreak of WWll. The picture was taken
at the Stockade in Old Fort Henry at Kingston Ontario, where his son-in-law was the Supply
Sgt.
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JT
Dutton May, 1945 |
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| A certificate presented to JT Dutton in appreciation from the people of Ypres, Belgium. | |
